On Thu, 11 Oct 2012, Andi Kleen wrote: > > While I've always thought SLUB was the default and recommended allocator, > > I'm surprise to find that it's not always the case: > > iirc the main performance reasons for slab over slub have mostly > disappeared, so in theory slab could be finally deprecated now. > SLUB is a non-starter for us and incurs a >10% performance degradation in netperf TCP_RR. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>